With temperatures hovering around 70 degrees the past few days Rolling Meadows Golf Course has seen an influx of golfers.

John Bernstein, PGA General Manager at Rolling Meadows explained that the course was busy this past weekend.

“We’ve had quite a bit more play than we have had in several previous weekends,” said Bernstein. “Obviously having snow a couple of weekends ago didn’t help much, but it was great to have the sunshine out and warmer temperatures. That tended to bring out a lot more people that are a little bit restless, needless to say, sitting at home waiting for golf weather.”

Bernstein and his staff did a lot of work over the winter months preparing the course for this summer, including a lot of tree work.

“Getting rid of diseased or trouble trees that were causing a problem with play or were a potential to cause some safety issues, so we’ve opened some things up quite a bit. The rough was over seeded last spring and the fairways were over seeded last fall, so we’re expecting those to start popping any day now.”

He added that he is now seeing day to day color changes in the grass as it continues to get greener and greener.

Other changes this year include some rate changes. Effective February 1st weekday, twilight and annual fee’s increased by 3 percent. Weekend rates and cart rental fee’s did not change.